A GOOD LIFE

Album version

Daddy always told me
Money don't mean everything
Consider yourself a lucky man
You got a guitar and you still can sing
As usual my Daddy was right

I got two kids, two cats
A good dog and a lucky hat
An old house, a fast car
But I don't go very far
I got a beautiful life
and I'm leading a good life

Well I wake up in the morning at the crack of dawn
And hit the clock before it rings
I work hard all day but at quitting time
I forget about everything
I walk out those doors and back into the light

I got two kids, two cats
A good dog and a lucky hat
An old house, a fast car
But I don't go very far
I got a beautiful life
and I'm leading a good life

Just because they sign my check
That don't mean they own my soul
It took me a while to figure it out
But Daddy now I know
As usual my Daddy was right

I got two kids, two cats
A good dog and a lucky hat
An old house, a fast car
But I don't go very far
I got a beautiful life
and I'm leading a good life

Page last updated: 13 Jan 2012

Info

A GOOD LIFE is a song written by Joe Grushecky and released on his 2006 album A Good Life. Bruce Springsteen guests on this track, sharing vocals and playing guitar with Grushecky.

A Good Life

A Good Life is a studio album by Joe Grushecky released on 15 Aug 2006 on Schoolhouse Records. It features Bruce Springsteen on four tracks. He shares vocals and plays guitar with Grushecky on CODE OF SILENCE, IS SHE THE ONE, and A GOOD LIFE, and only plays guitar on SEARCHING FOR MY SOUL. The primary recording sessions for the album took place at studios in West Virginia. However Springsteen, with Toby Scott engineering, worked only from his New Jersey home studio and overdubbed onto Gruschecky's already completed basic tracks.

A Good Life track list:

1. CODE OF SILENCE
2. IS SHE THE ONE
3. DON'T FORGET WHERE YOU'RE COMING FROM
4. A GOOD LIFE
5. BEAUTY FADES
6. NOTHING WITHOUT YOU
7. TOO HOT TO THINK
8. THE OTHER SHOE
9. PARTY TONIGHT
10. SEARCHING FOR MY SOUL
11. FATHER AND SON
12. SAFE AT HOME
13. LAKE PONTCHARTRAIN [bonus track]

Other Official Releases

In addition to its release on A Good Life, A GOOD LIFE was also released on A Good Life - Sampler, a 2006 US-only promotional CD-R sampler containing six tracks from A Good Life.

Live History

A GOOD LIFE was performed during the seventh (2006) annual Light Of Day benefit. The song was played with Joe Grushecky and the Houserockers.

[Click here to display/hide detailed Light Of Day benefits shows performances list]

A GOOD LIFE was performed off-tour on 04 Nov 2011 at Soldiers And Sailors Memorial Hall in Pittsburgh, PA, when Bruce Springsteen appeared at Joe Grushecky and the Houserockers concerts.

[Click here to display/hide detailed 2011 off-tour performances list]

Credits

Thanks Steen Andersson (rosalita101 at Greasy Lake) for the US CD-R sampler scan.